Wow. Turns out that climate change is a complex topic.

First, a Russian scientist believes we're headed for another Little Ice Age. I don't agree with him, but it's interesting that several scientists thought that in the '70s. The best part of the article is the line "During the 16th century, the Baltic Sea froze so hard that hotels were built on the ice for people crossing the sea in coaches." Do you think that little tidbit of information would help explain why the world is the warmest it's been in a thousand years -- maybe because the last thousand years included a large period of below-average temperatures?

Then, it looks like a warmer earth has led to larger glaciers in some parts of the world. Apparently a warmer region leads to more humid air (if there's water in the region, otherwise it leads to a nastier desert), and if it's not too warm, that comes down in the form of more rain or snow. Hmmm, so global warming may affect some parts of the world differently than other parts of the world. Why don't they explain that on the news? Why didn't the Day After Tomorrow make that distinction? How about An Inconvenient Truth?

And how inconvenient is that truth?

UPDATE About a week after I wrote this, the Boston Globe ran an article about a particular scientist that has a problem with all the certainty in what we, the ign'rnt public, are allowed to hear from the climatologists.